Christopher G. Moore

“(Calvino) had long ago accepted that his business model as a private investigator in Bangkok needed to incorporate spirit house offerings, lizard and gecko yammering, fortune tellers’ predictions of auspicious days and times, and Chinese reading of faces and head shapes before any decision would be made. . .the day soon came when they no longer seemed crazy.”
― Christopher G. Moore, Missing In Rangoon: Vincent Calvino Crime Novel

“Rumors in Thailand don’t have fathers or mothers. They’re orphans of loan sharks, con men, streetwalkers, and fortune tellers. No one claims them until they become legitimate.”
― Christopher G. Moore

“I’ve heard that you’re in the pain business. I don’t like doing work for that kind of man,” said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. “If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn’t cover your rent.”
― Christopher G. Moore

“I’d rather go broke giving enemas to house lizards than make money from customers like him. Old George made a fist and thrust it toward the water buffalo mounted on the wall above his head.”
― Christopher G. Moore, Paying Back Jack: A Vincent Calvino Novel